Developing Issues for Projects - Developing Issues for...

Developing Issues for Projects: Multi-issue planning: Multi-issue planning, also known as multi-objective planning, is standard in most large scale planning projects for several reasons: • Large scale planning often covers such vast expanses of land that many issues are typically begging to be addressed. • Many issues are so interconnected that some issues cannot be properly addressed without addressing other issues. If, for example, you wish to reintroduce steelhead trout to a waterway, you will have to address fluvial geomorphology, hydrology (flow rates, water quantity, water quality, even water temperature), vegetation, and most likely other species within the wildlife community. • Some issues could potentially be addressed separately, but where addressing one issue will result in significant alteration of a landscape, it can be more efficient to address other issues at the same time. If, for example a stream is to be day-lighted and restored, it might be more cost effective to go ahead and install a bike path, or an information kiosk at the same time. • Sometimes a planner will not trust that future plan elements will be planned and installed sensitively enough to avoid negatively impacting an area where the planner is currently working. For example, when I was trying to make movement corridors for bobcats in the San Gabriel region, I was worried that a future bike path and other recreational features would be sited and installed in a way that would reduce the corridors’ functionality for wildlife movement. I tried to circumvent this problem by including those elements in my plan and showing how they could be sensitively integrated with a functioning wildlife corridor. • A broader range of issues will tend to bring more stakeholders onboard for a

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